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 Allow me to lead the needy majority by the hand towards Sky One’s latest offering: a sci-fi-tinged series called Resident Alien, starring the mighty Alan Tudyk as a visitor from outer space who crash-lands outside the small town of Patience, Colorado, kills the owner of the first fishing cabin he finds, dumps him in the nearest frozen lake, and assumes, via molecular reconstruction, the poor guy’s appearance and identity. This, we learn, is to give himself time to find the device lost in the crash (ideally before the thaw that will allow the bloated corpse to rise to the surface and give away the intergalactic game) that will allow him to complete his mission. His mission is to wipe out humanity. Hello, premise! How will a not-entirely-novel incarnation of something like this play out within the sci-fi genre? Quite pleasantly, is the short answer. It turns out that the man the alien is impersonating is a doctor, Harry Vanderspiegle. When the town doctor is found dead, they turn to...